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Bishop John Arnold (the son of a prominent
Freemason) shuts down the Legion of Mary and dismisses Humanae
Vitae

but he celebrates the Tridentine
Latin Mass, so that makes its all okay

Bishop
Arnold is a convert and an very clever man. He
is the son of an important free-mason and when he became
a Lawyer, Bishop Arnold worked in the Inns of Court. Then
he converted to the Catholic faith and joined the Rosminian
Order. After
his ordination they sent him to Rome to study Canon Law.

In Rome Bishop Arnold stayed at the
English College where Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
was Rector and they became good buddies. Bishop
Arnold decided to leave the Rosminian Order and become
a diocesan priest in Westminster Archdiocese. When
he returned from Rome, Bishop Arnold spent three years
working in Archbishop’s House and then became parish
priest of Enfield, one of the largest Westminster parishes
with a Mass attendance of 2,000 – although
he still chaired the Diocesan Priests Committee and held
meetings at Archbishop’s House.

During his ten years at Enfield Bishop
Arnold closed down the Legion of Mary, dismissed Humanae
Vitae saying people must make up their own minds,
said publicly that it is no longer necessary to make
our Easter duties and removed a beautiful statue of Our
Lady of Mount Carmel from the church replacing it with
a modern plain white statue.

He had a very traditional curate and
gave him such a bad time that he had to get himself moved,
but at Cardinal Hume’s funeral when the Cathedral
sacristy was crowded with priests vesting for Mass, Bishop
Arnold squeezed in beside this young priest and promised
he would get back at him.

After Enfield Bishop Arnold
returned to Archbishop’s House where his old buddy
Cardinal Cormac ordained him auxiliary bishop in Westminster. It
was during his time at Westminster that the regular Masses
for militant homosexuals who use the Mass as a vehicle
to flaunt, promote and celebrate their disordered sexuality,
were established - although Bishop Bernard Longley, another
auxiliary bishop ‘fronted’ this scandal.

Bishop Arnold and the Tridentine Mass:
it is widely believed that Bishop Arnold despises the
rite of our forefathers, saints and martyrs. Nevertheless,
when the Latin Mass Society wrote to the Cardinal asking
permission to bring a South American Bishop over
to say Mass in the Cathedral they received a letter signed
by the Cardinal saying there was no need as Bishop Arnold
would say it for them. He learnt it easily and
said it faultlessly because he knew that this would make
people see him as a good traditional bishop who loves
the old Mass. Many who don’t know him do
think this.

However, a little later while on an
Episcopal visit in North London, Bishop Arnold showed
his real colours. In the morning he held a Service
of General Absolution, absolving everyone in the crowded
church before joining the parish priest, curate and representatives
from the parish for lunch. During lunch Bishop
Arnold mocked the Tridentine Mass laughingly saying, “I
am the darling of the Traddies now I have said their
old Mass for them.”

The bottom line is that Bishop Arnold
is just another one of the dreary post-Conciliar bog-standard
mordernist clones who have helped bring the English church
to its knees. Promoted as all of them are as a
result of being a close buddy of another insider, the
top jobs being parcelled out among their chums. The
buddy with the strings being Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
on this occasion. However, he is clearly a lot
more dangerous than Cormac, because manifestly considerably
brighter.